Printings
Shared Fate
Card Information
Type: Enchantment
Mana Cost: 4
CMC: 5
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Mirrodin (MRD)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 49
Oracle Text
If a player would draw a card, that player exiles the top card of one of their opponents' libraries face down instead. Each player may look at cards they exiled with this enchantment, and they may play lands and cast spells from among those cards.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- August 1, 2008
Each Shared Fate tracks only the cards it exiled. If the Shared Fate which was responsible for a card being exiled leaves the battlefield, putting another Shared Fate onto the battlefield will not allow you to play that card again.
Source: wotc - December 1, 2004
The cards are exiled, not put onto the players' hands. Players can look at and play the exiled cards, but can't do anything else with them (the exiled cards can't be discarded or cycled, for example).
Source: wotc - December 1, 2004
Replacing your draws isn't optional. You can't draw cards from your own library, even if all your opponents' libraries are empty.
Source: wotc - December 1, 2004
If more than one Shared Fate is on the battlefield, you choose which one replaces each card draw, but you can replace a draw only once.
Source: wotc - December 1, 2004
You need to pay the costs of any cards you play from the Exile zone. This could be a problem if you don't have the right colors of mana available.
Source: wotc
Price History
To study a single card is to glimpse the heart of a spell - a frozen moment of ambition, artistry, and arcane intent. Within each glyph lies a spark: a story untold, a duel turned, a destiny altered. Treat it not as mere parchment, dear seeker, but as a shard of the Multiverse itself.